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John Harney was a former innkeeper whose efforts to introduce quality specialty teas to a coffee-drinking public were highly successful. The founder of Harney & Sons Ltd., he was an ambassador for loose-leaf tea, which he introduced personally, one boiling kettle and stopwatch at a time. "John became a missionary of tea," Peter F. Goggi, president of the Tea Association of the USA told the New York Times in a recent obituary for Harney. While Harney did not succeed in displacing coffee as one of America's favorite beverages, the consumption of tea has soared, with nearly 277 million pounds imported in 2012 compared to 170 million pounds in 1990. Tea is now a...

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